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What is a Secure (SSL) Certificate? Do I Need One?

Posted by Paul on Nov 7, 2008 in Blog | 0 comments

If you’ve been in the world of electronic commerce at all, secure (or SSL, meaning Secure Sockets Layer) certificates have probably been mentioned at one time or another. But what is an SSL certificate? Do you need one for your website? Secure Certificates Explained Let’s look at this in a real-world scenario. Say you’re looking to buy a book on web design, and as such, you go to the king of online book retailers, Amazon.com. You select your book, add it to your cart, and click “check out”. You’re about to be taken to the part of the website that asks for...